Shinra Kusakabe, a youth dubbed "Devil's Footprints" due to his power to ignite his feet at will, joins Special Fire Force Company 8, a specialized fire brigade of pyrokinetics which destroys Infernals, sympathetically described as putting their human souls to rest. Shinra is quickly dispatched on his first mission to save the wife of a factory owner that has become an Infernal. In the midst of the emergency, he recalls accidentally burning down his house and killing his family with his powers as a child, causing him to be feared and neglected, as well as leaving him with the desire to become a hero and save people. Shinra successfully destroys the Infernal and the factory owner thanks Shinra profusely for laying his wife to rest.